Spotlight on Lynn C. Miller
Lynn C. Miller is a writer, a playwright, a performer, an instructor, the cofounder of a magazine, and so much more. Her life in the...
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C. P. Lesley
- Dec 16, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Dec. 2019
Christopher Brown, Rule of Capture (Harper Voyager, 2019) Donny Kimoe, a wisecracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Dec 1, 2019
- 6 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Pets I (Cats & More)
Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts out describing them, and now have to share...
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C. P. Lesley
- Nov 15, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Nov. 2019
Here are three novels we particularly enjoyed this month. But don’t stop there. We also published two new books of our own this fall, so...
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C. P. Lesley
- Oct 30, 2019
- 6 min
Spotlight on P. K. Adams
As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what...
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C. P. Lesley
- Oct 17, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Oct. 2019
And while you’re browsing all these wonderful books, don’t miss our latest release: Joan Schweighardt’s Gifts for the Dead, book 2 in her...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Sep 27, 2019
- 6 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: BFF
According to online urban dictionaries, BFF has a variety of possible meanings, at least one of which is vulgar. Rest assured; here at...
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C. P. Lesley
- Sep 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Sep. 2019
Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019) Police raids on a factory to round up undocumented immigrants; a brown-skinned immigrant...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Aug 30, 2019
- 4 min
Spotlight on Joy Castro
It’s my great pleasure to interview Joy Castro for this Spotlight feature. With her permission I’d like to introduce her with her recent...
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C. P. Lesley
- Aug 15, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Aug. 2019
Anna Burns, Milkman (Faber and Faber, 2018) “The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Jul 31, 2019
- 5 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Indulgences
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” Mick Jagger has said. And we agree. To a point. Regarding some things. C. P. Lesley:...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jul 15, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Jul. 2019
Kate Braithwaite, The Girl Puzzle (Crooked Cat Books, 2019) In 1887 Elizabeth Cochrane—a young reporter from Pittsburgh desperate to land...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Jun 28, 2019
- 5 min
Spotlight on Faye Rapoport DesPres
With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jun 14, 2019
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Jun. 2019
Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono (Park Row Books, 2019) Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an...
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Joan Schweighardt
- May 29, 2019
- 5 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Writing Tips
Since newer writers are always asking us old-timers for hot tips, this month we are dishing about the psychology of villains, the...
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C. P. Lesley
- May 15, 2019
- 3 min
Books We Loved, May 2019
Rachael Bloome, Puzzle Pieces (2019) Free download at author’s website Elle is an app developer whose claim to fame is Puzzle Pieces, an...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Apr 26, 2019
- 9 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: On Matters Mystical and Mundane
This month Five Directions Press authors have gone deep to dish about what it means to be in touch with the esoteric side of life: past...
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C. P. Lesley
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Apr. 2019
Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger (Flatiron Books, 2019) The Night Tiger is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Mar 28, 2019
- 7 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Saying Goodbye to Our Own Characters
Last month 5DP authors dished about saying goodbye to characters not of our own making. This month we’re honing in on the real deal, the...
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C. P. Lesley
- Mar 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Mar. 2019
C, J. Box, The Disappeared (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) Even fantasy can become mundane if one reads too much of it. The Disappeared by...
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